Napoleon and Latin American Revolutions

Napoleon accidentally triggered the biggest wave of revolutions in Latin America just by being greedy.

When he took over Spain, the colonies finally snapped. They were already

sick of a toxic class system where only Spanish-born Peninsulares had rights,

while Creoles and Indigenous people got nothing. It started in Haiti where Toussaint

Louverture led the only successful slave revolt in history against the French.

Then Simon Bolivar and San Martin swept through South America liberating countries, while Father Hidalgo

rallied Mexico. Within a decade, the map completely changed, forcing the US to

tell Europe to back off for good.